, 1887-03-31
WHY NOT
Make of Cheyenne a Live Manufac.
turing City?
A Boom That May be Created al
Home.

- Cheyenne for Its size is the wealthiest
city in the civilized world, and that fact is
so well and widely known that it is not
necessary to discuss the matter here.
There are men living in Cheyenne to-day
who could build the $3.50, 600 capital alone
and not feel it except temporarily, or who
could build a $4,000 depot for the Union
Pacific, one to cost an equal amount for
the Burlington & Missouri when it comes,
one for the Northwestern when it gets
here. and make them presents to the var
ious railroad companies and living like
princes without doing a stroke of work for
the balance of their natural lives and
leave behind them when they go a re-
spectacle fortune for their sisters and
their cousins and their aunts' to quarrel
over after they have been gathered to
to their fathers in the mysterious land be-
yond the divide. There is wealth enough
and money enough in Cheyenne which
could be proftably invested in that way
and manner such as would result in laying
the foundation for Cheyenne's unexam-
pied prosperity for all coming time.
There is really no further necessity for
going forth into the outside world after
capital or anything else with which to
create a boom in this city which would be
as lasting. permanent and enduring as the
mountains within whose shadows we
dwell and from whose submits the eter-
nal SHOWS glitter and shine from season to
season and from decade to decade. Chey-
enne can easily be made one of the liveli-
est manufacturing cities in the far West;
in fact, the leading city of this sort in the
entire Rocky mountain region.
Let us see what sort OF manufactures
would pay in this city.
A great Touring mill.
A paper factory.
A tannery.
Extensive carriage and wagon shops.
Reduction works.
A cigar mandatory.
A cheese factory.
Soap works.
A cracker factory.
An extensive foundry.
A brewery.
A mandatory of agricultural imple-
ments.
A WOODEN factory.
Any or all of the foregoing would pay
well in Cheyenne and there are others not
included in the foregoing list ofwhich the
same thing might be said.
If Cheyenne were to have manufactures
such as have been enumerated, or a por-
ton of them, it would at once advance to
a career OF prosperity such as it has never
seen before.
Take for example the Touring mill.
Experience has demonstrated the fact that
with a little irrigation we have around this
city one of the finest soils in the world-a
soil upon which almost anything that can
be raised anywhere can be grown here.
The starting of a Touring mill in Chey-
enne would inspire and stimulate every
ranchman between the Colorado line and
the North Platee to turn his attention
largely to the growing of grain, and not
only this, but hundreds of others would
come in and in the course of a few years
Cheyenne would find itself surrounded by
a fine agricultural country which would be
tributary to this city.
There are many other reasons which
might be urged upon this matter of
making out of Cheyenne n manufacturing
town, but space forbids their mention at
this time. Men everywhere are prone to
rely on outside assistance for success in
life, and what is true Of man individually
is true OF men collectively, and hence it is
that possessing the means of Cheyenne's
assured prosperity and development, we
are too apt to look for something to come
to us from abroad rather than to make the
most of that which is within reach of the
people of this city.
Badly Injured.
Bill Phillips. the well known ranchman,
while riding into town yesterday, was bad
ly though not dangerously injured. The
horse he was riding slipped and both
horse and rider fell, Bill unfortunately
alighting on the ground under the horse.
No bones were broken, but as Phillips
has been sick for the past two weeks the
fall and the bruising he received thereby